Antarctic Journal

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Antarctic Journal
Antarctic Journal.jpg
Korean theatrical release poster
Hangul
Hanja
Revised Romanization Namgeukilgi
McCune–Reischauer Namgŭkilgi
Directed by Yim Pil-sung
Written byYim Pil-sung
Bong Joon-ho
Lee Hae-jun
Produced byCha Seung-jae
Noh Jong-yun
Chae Hoe-seung
Starring Song Kang-ho
Yoo Ji-tae
Cinematography Chung Chung-hoon
Edited byKim Sun-min
Music by Kenji Kawai
Distributed by Showbox Entertainment
Release date
  • May 19, 2005 (2005-05-19)
Running time
114 minutes
Country South Korea
LanguageKorean
BudgetUS$6,500,000
Box officeUS$5,568,811 [1]

Antarctic Journal is a 2005 South Korean film. It is the feature film debut by director Yim Pil-sung. The film mixes elements of psychological thriller and classical horror films while showing the hardships met by a modern Korean antarctic expedition trying to reach the pole of inaccessibility. The film generated some buzz before its release due to its large budget (over US$6.5 million) and notable cast, but wasn't a box office hit.

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Plot

During their journey to the Pole of Inaccessibility (POI), the remotest point of the Antarctic, the expedition of six men, led by Captain Choi Do-hyung, discovers a journal that was left behind by a British expedition 80 years earlier. The journal was remarkably preserved in a box in the snow and Kim Min-jae, another member of the expedition, gets the job of examining it. It turns out that the two expeditions shared the same goal and soon other strange similarities between them start to show up. Will they make it to their destination before the sun goes down for the Antarctic winter?

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Reception

Derek Elley from Variety wrote, "Some awesome widescreen lensing, with New Zealand convincingly repping the polar wastes, can't compensate for the dramatic emptiness of Antarctic Journal, in which the script gets lost along with the explorers." [2]

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References

  1. "Antarctic Journal". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  2. Elley, Derek. "Antarctic Journal". Variety.com. Retrieved 25 October 2018.